Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse, and Other Friends and Teachers
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (661 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1933859997 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 275 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Becoming Paleoconservative Chris Woltermann Paleoconservatives are reactive rather than reactionary. They do not idealize the past, much less seek to restore it. As exemplified by Prof. Paul Gottfried, the leading intellectual among them, paleoconservatives loathe the regnant political elite and how it glorifies the present as the most enlightened age in history. This viewpoint has. An Intellectual Tour de Force This autobiographical work revolves around Paul Gottfried's personal encounters with other significant figures rather than focusing on himself, as he contends that the "stimulating relations I have formed over the years should interest my readers more than my undistinguished professional life." (p. ix) Gottfried's standard of judgment is . superb writing by the George Orwell of our current age Paul Edward Gottfried could be seen as the George Orwell of the current age, or, indeed, our own time-line's version of "Emmanuel Goldstein", who has been charting for decades what Orwell referred to in his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four as "the theory and practice of oligarchic collectivism" (that is, the managerial-therapeutic reg
Paul Gottfried has spent a lifetime asking politically incorrect questions, untimely questions that have made him more unpopular among some timid “movement” conservatives than among critical theorists, Central European Marxists, and assorted other debating and dining partners. The result is a unique, enthralling narrative that makes a signal contribution to American intellectual history.. But in Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse, and Other Friends and Teachers, Gottfried puts past political battles aside in order to recount his varied associations and friendships with a host of fascinating figures, including his father, Herbert Marcuse, Paul Piccone, Christopher Lasch, Richard Nixon, and Patrick J. He insists that his life would be of little general interest were it not for the fortuitous encounters that have raised it out of the ordinary. Buchanan. Gottfried’s memoir emphasizes the Forrest Gump–like quality of his often accidental relationships with these celebrities and stimulating personalities, the benefits of which were not social or pro
From Booklist An exacting, scrupulous historian of political ideas, Gottfried has never taught at an upper-tier university. From outside the academy he recalls his entrepreneurial father, independent conservative scholar Russell Kirk, libertarian Murray Rothbard, columnists Samuel Francis and Pat Buchanan, and a figure almost as surprising as Marcuse in this context, Richard Nixon, whose knowledge, conversational panache, and personal warmth charmed Gottfried. That career disappointment is an evanescing leitmotiv in this memoir, which is f